Jeff RoweJeffrey Rowe has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing. On the publishing side, he has written well over 1,000 articles for CAD, CAM, CAE, and other technical publications, as well as consulting in many capacities in the design community. As editor of MCADCafe, Jeff…

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, July 25, 2018 – CCE, a leading provider of advanced CAD interoperability technology, has announced the latest update of its flagship CAD viewer and translator software, EnSuite. Most new enhancements and functionalities introduced as part of this release are aimed squarely at facilitating seamless data exchange across the automotive supply chain. EnSuite’s…

GUANGZHOU, China, Sep 20, 2018 – ZWSOFT, an innovative supplier of CAD/CAM solutions and service provider, today announced the launch of an advanced 3D CAD viewer, CADbro 2018 SP2, the best assistant to raise the efficiency of development and production collaboration. Packed with 3D & 2D viewing, measuring, mark-up and other investigative & analyzing functions, CADbro…

For those that need to work with, or share, visualization data as part of design and manufacturing processes, the Theorem Visualize 3D suite of products offers direct translation of 3D data for the purpose of Visualization. Theorem’s Visualize 3D brand supports lightweight data formats with a focus specifically on the direct translation of 3D CAD…

Creo Parametric is the successor to Pro/ENGINEER, which introduced the CAD industry to history-based parametric design.(Image courtesy of PTC). A key milestone in the history of computer-aided design (CAD) came with the 1987 release of Pro/ENGINEER, now PTC Creo, which introduced the CAD industry to history-based parametric modeling. Since then, the parametric paradigm has been…

From left to right: Jon Hirschtick, Gian Paolo Bassi and Kevin Wrenn. (Images courtesy of Twitter.) Engineers, product designers and CAD professionals, keep this in mind: The world of CAD is in a state of transition. To be fair, CAD tools and techniques are always changing, with software providers continuously upgrading their products and developing…

During last week’s virtual event on creating augmented reality content for service organizations, we asked 137 attendees whether they saw more applicability for product-overlay AR or table-top AR. Overwhelmingly, 72.8% of respondents said they saw use cases for both types of AR. Just under 5% said table-top AR was more relevant to their needs, and…